Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy by Vicki Smith Cornell University/ILR Press, 2001, 240 pp., $29.95 Recession’s harsh light having awakened us from our dreams of a new economy, we’re now looking bleary-eyed at …
Noam Cohen makes several very good points about the possibilities of social change occurring from the technological revolution of the Internet. Before we on the left embrace the Internet as a cure-all for the woes of modern consumerism and alienation, …
Four years ago, when I began interviewing people who work in New York’s Internet industry, I was struck by an irony: even though their employers and clients were some of the largest media and technology conglomerates in the world, workers …
In 1908, in Paris, Emile Durkheim and Charles Mathieu Limousin debated which was the supreme social science: economics or sociology? In the course of the debate, Durkheim challenged the immutability of economic laws. “The value of things,” he said, “in …
